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04-09-2005, 01:11 AM
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| Review: The little PC that could ASUS Terminator C3 Eric shows us a new small barebones PC from ASUS with a big heart. Feel free to post your comments and questions here! Article Link: http://www.abxzone.com/abx_reviews/yama/article_p1.html
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04-09-2005, 02:20 AM
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04-09-2005, 06:43 AM
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The Terminator C3, I used a 40 gig hdd and 256 megs DDR 333 memory. However, I did upgrade the CD-rom 52X to an Asus DVD-rom so that added a bit. At todays prices these components cost me 250$ Canadian so roughly 205$ US including the upgrade to the dvd-rom before taxes. You would need to add the cost of Win XP but I resently tried Knoppix 3.7 and it runs great so if you use Linux, the OS is free 
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05-18-2005, 12:51 PM
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09-01-2005, 08:05 PM
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| Thank you,yamawho! Thanks to your review,I bought a Terminator C3 and equiped it with a WD 80 gig hard drive,512 mb Kingston memory,and a Toshiba DVD/CD-RW combo drive.For basic computing, using PCLinuxOS as my operating system,it works great.It even handles DVD's without slowing down!! To say I was suprised (and delighted,at the same time)is an understament!The whole thing(including a new CDL 17" monitor)cost only $400.00US!Simply unbeatable  |
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09-01-2005, 08:31 PM
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| Your welcome DragonMike  I was running knoppix 3.7 for awhile on it but switched back to winXP pro. This system is currently running PhotoShop, Office 2003 and FrontPage 2003 and is in use everyday since the review. Welcome to ABXZone 
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07-28-2006, 12:46 PM
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| Update The onboard nic died yesterday for some reason ... just couldn't get it working again. Since this system has one free PCI slot, I added a network card and all is well. This is the 1st failure I've had with it.
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07-29-2006, 02:44 AM
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|  Older Terminator I'd like to chime in! I'm running a Terminator A7VT w/XP Pro SP1, AMD Sempron 2200+, 512 MB (PC2100), stock CD, Sony DVD-RW, ATI Radeon 7000 64 MB (PCI), Seagate Barracuda 40 GB, Thermaltake Tornado CPU Fan/Sync, and a 15" LCD. I must say that this IS NOT a gaming rig... LoL However, it's capable of doing eveything I need a workstation for, and does it very effeciently. At the time of purchase, $250... I had HDD, monitor, DVD-RW, and CPU Fan. I couldn't beat that price. This thing is still churning along nicely! Great job Asus!
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07-29-2006, 04:03 AM
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| ASUS makes some very excellent barebones systems. 
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